February 2012
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To Alexa or not to Alexa... part deux
I have a bit of a tricky - if utterly one-sided - relationship with Alex Chung.
On the one hand, like most people who enjoy looking at pictures of pretty people wearing pretty clothes, my eye was instantly drawn to her… even before she started popping up in all the women’s magazines. On the other hand, it baffles me that she (and people like her) are held up as Awesome, Holistic Role...
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This week’s best reads on gender, politics and creativity… chopped up, roasted and served to you on a platter.
Lego Moleskins. Tell me you don’t want one. (Lost at E Minor)
“A feminism that doesn’t allow for paradoxes and contradictions in the ideals versus lived experiences of its proponents is not terribly useful.” Elizabeth Nolan Brown talks Hugo Schwyzer....
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“Perhaps the more pertinent question then is not if gay people choose to be gay,...”
– Can you “choose” your sexuality?
I go all gender studies on yo ass at Daily Life today.
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Guest post: Why it pays to write for trade...
There’s more to journalism than the Fairfax newspapers, women’s glossies, unpaid web content and The New Yorker… although you might not know it from the way I write here. Fortunately, freelance journalist Mitchell Jordan is here to fill you in on a whole world of (paid!) publishing opportunities that often go overlooked. And for the record… my first journalism gig? Was at...
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On #dailywife and writing for the "women's pages"
Andrea writes for a newspaper. ‘This is for the Living section,’ she says. I know what that means, it used to be the Women’s Pages. It’s funny that they now call it Living, as if only women are alive and other things, such as the Sports, are for the dead. ‘Living, eh?’ I say. ‘I’m the mother of two. I bake cookies.’ All true. Andrea gives me a dirty look and flicks on her machine.
So writes...
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If you read one thing this weekend, make it Ian Parker’s very long, but very excellent analysis of the events leading up to gay teen Tyler Clementi’s suicide in 2010. I’m cutting it out and keeping it for my “awesome journalism of the kind I hope to someday produce” file. (The New Yorker)
College student Brittany Molina was passed a note advising her to...
sternly asked: Hi Rachel, I just wanted to thank you for your 'Occupy Valentines' post. More than anything, it was what I needed to hear as a 85% single woman who'd broken up with her boyfriend three weeks before v-day. Thanks for reminding me that there's nothing defective about being mostly single, and reminding me that a single life is rich, too (especially if you dated a homebody, as I...
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“I’m not really interested in guessing at what Nixon’s “true” sexual identity...”
– J. Bryan Lowder: Is Cynthia Nixon’s sexuality really a choice?
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Occupy Valentine’s Day: in praise of being single
It feels vaguely blasphemous to be writing about how great it is to be single on my first Valentine’s Day as a married person. But given that some quick fraction work reveals that I’ve spent just over 85% of my life so far as a single person (by which I don’t mean “unmarried”, but not in any kind of romantic relationship at all), I feel it is a subject that I know something about. Sure, a lot of...
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If you read one thing this weekend, make it Lou McCudden’s Three Faces of Feminism: Louise Mensch, Laurie Penny and Jodie Marsh:
Less than 800 people could be bothered watching Louise Mensch and Laurie Penny argue about the role of the state and the speed of the government’s cuts (important issues though they are), but all around the world, women and men were watching ‘Jodie Marsh Bullied:...
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rareuser asked: When you say that guys and gals are hooking up every few months with people they aren't in a relationship with are they hooking up with people they already know somewhat or are these people they just met at a party? Please explain the context that these hook ups take place. Thanks.
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A massive thank you to everyone who responded to... →
I’ve received over 400 emails in the past 24 hours… which is going to take me a little while to get through, for obvious reasons.
If you’re interested in participating and haven’t gotten in touch yet, please don’t let that deter you, though.
While I don’t have the capacity to interview everyone, I’m going to be setting up a Facebook group to keep...
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Help wanted: want to be in my book?
Update: For those of you coming via Feministing (thanks Chloe!), I am still interviewing people over the age of 24. I just have a bit of a deficit in my under 24 sample at present. Likewise people not located in the US or Canada: I am interviewing people from all sorts of countries, but I’m preparing for this particular research trip at present.
If you’d like to talk with me and...
